Festival Stories

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas is offering a discounted ticket and travel package to the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performance of Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray on Friday February 12, 2010 at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College.

See this thought-provoking dance theater work about Abraham Lincoln on the 201st anniversary of his birth! Click here to read more about the event.

This special $65 expedition package includes the following:

• Round trip transportation from New Haven, Connecticut to Purchase, New York

• Snacks and drinks on the expedition...

The International Festival of Arts & Ideas will be co-hosting a Town Hall Community Meeting on Thursday, February 4, 2010 from 5:30pm to 7pm in Meeting Room 1 of City Hall, 165 Church Street, New Haven.

Get a preview of the 2010 Festival; talk to Festival staff and ask about opportunties to volunteer, participate, vend or perform during the Festival (June 12-26, 2010); hear about past collaborations; share your thoughts; and meet some of the Festival's community partners.

The Town Hall Community Meeting will be co-hosted by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas along with the Arts...

The cornerstone artists for the 15th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas (running Saturday, June 12 through Saturday, June 26, 2010) were announced last night during the Festival's "Sneak Peek" Preview Party, which featured an exclusive glimpse of a scene from Moby Dick performed by Conor Lovett of Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland. Click here to see the full list of events that have been announced.The Festival will be announcing more of this summer’s events during the month of February.

“Each of these works complement each other and create a shared experience, broadening the...

The Festival's presentation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2000 production of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is included in Frank Rizzo's list of The Ten Best Theatrical Shows Of The Decade in The Hartford Courant.

Ivanov was included in Christopher Arnott's list of the best theater productions of 2009 in the New Haven Advocate.

Ivanov and First Love were included in Frank Rizzo's list of the best theater productions of 2009 in the Hartford Courant.

Circus and Dido & Aeneas were included in Donna Doherty's best of 2009 article in the New Haven Register.

Unsilent Night was originally created as the ambient soundtrack to a Christmas party, a quasi-carolling thing that about 50 of us did in Greenwich Village in 1992.  Everybody had such a good time that it was suggested we do it again the next year, and it kept on going, year after year, with the crowd gradually growing to hundreds, then booming up to a thousand or more..  In 2000, a new music collective in Tallahassee asked if they could present it.  when we made the commercial recording the next year, there was a note that said if you want to do this in your town, give me a call.  The next...

Phil Kline's Unsilent Night tomorrow is a combination of free music & a walking tour. The Yale University Visitor Center shared some interesting information about the route of "Unsilent Night" with the Festival:

Davenport College and Pierson College (James Gamble Rogers, 1933) are named for the Reverend Abraham Pierson, Yale’s first president, and the Reverend John Davenport, co-founder of the New Haven Colony and the first to propose the establishment of a college here. Both are red brick and Georgian Revival in style, except for the York Street façade of Davenport, which is Collegiate...

Click here to read the article by K. Leander Williams in the Village Voice about Phil Kline. Don't miss the Festival's third annual presentation of Kline's Unsilent Night in New Haven, which will be taking place on Thursday December 10 starting at 5:30pm at The Yale Bookstore (77 Broadway).

Click here to read Donna Doherty's article in the New Haven Register about the Festival's third annual presentation of Phil Kline's Unsilent Night in New Haven, which will be taking place on Thursday December 10 starting at 5:30pm at The Yale Bookstore (77 Broadway).

The Calder Quartet (Benjamin Jacobson & Andrew Bulbrook, violin; Jonathan Moerschel, viola; Eric Byers, cello) is featured in the Los Angeles Times today. Click here to read the article.

At the 2006 International Festival of Arts & Ideas, the Calder Quartet (named after the great American visual artist Alexander Calder) payed homage to Shostakovich with a piece by Pulitzer Prize winning American composer Christopher Rouse - his String Quartet No. 2. The quartet also performed works by Beethoven and Shostakovich in Sprague Memorial Hall at Yale University as part of the Festival.

Click here to read the Hartford Courant article by Donna Larcen and Amy Ellis about holiday festivities in the region, including the Festival's third annual presentation of Phil Kline's Unsilent Night in New Haven, which will be taking place on Thursday December 10 starting at 5:30pm at The Yale Bookstore (77 Broadway).